Rebecca Hayes

Rebecca Hayes (she/her) is an artist, designer, animator & educator with over 10 years' experience in higher education. She is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Design, teaching into the Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media) Program, and currently completing a Masters by Research within the School of Media and Communication.

Her creative practice spans animation, illustration, visual arts, design and AV/digital media for live performance. She has directed, designed and created multi-faceted animated content for broadcast, online publications, museums, exhibitions, site-specific installations, and mainstage theatre productions. Her animated works utilise a range of techniques encompassing drawing, collage, photography, stop motion, and cut-outs. Her award-winning short film work has screened extensively across Australia and overseas.

Examples of Rebecca's work can be found at www.rebeccakhayes.com

Rebecca previously co-founded and worked as one-third of the sibling artist group The Sisters Hayes (active 2010 - 2019), award-winning theatre designers and cross-disciplinary artists. Collectively they have designed set, costume and AV for independent and mainstream theatre productions, and have curated and exhibited visual art and moving image work in a wide variety of commercial and artist-run galleries and public spaces throughout Melbourne. Their collaborative practice has been featured in Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century published by Routledge Press.

You can see more about their collaborative design & visual art practice at www.thesistershayes.com.